Just reading through the GPL preservation society article... and this line made me chuckle..

"Even online, many of the leagues are still thriving; UKGPL is about to start season 13 with four divisions, GPL isn't going anywhere for a while yet.

rFactor, NkPro, GTR and the like are all excelent simulator platforms but that misses the point"

Heh... how NKPro even gets a mention and LFS does not I don't know! and the fact that NKPRO and the word excellent is in the same sentence


I do agree though we as a community who feel very passionate about LFS should make some effort to put some article together once a month to tell and show people what LFS is all about and what a great WIP Sim it is. I think a bit of publicity would be good. I am sure that there are lot of people out there who are looking for the most realistic sim on the market but then choose rTractor or GTR2 to play rather than LFS simply because they don't know LFS even exists.

I am sure that many people from the LFS community could contribute and put something together, we have plenty of clever people here with good writing skills, replace some of that forum sitting/reading/posting/living with some article writing.... faster1111 anyone?

mad

Quote from Highsider9 :

How about the "Scan your Face Avatar Month"?

Hoping the "Photo of yourself" option wins now.. so that I can then scan a few photos/face....mind you there are probably already weird pics of me floating on the forum..... somewhere

mad

lol... watched it with my sound muted as it was a CCTV video at first and they dont usually have any sound so didn't bother turning it on...

glad I didn't now.. would have probably scared me s**tless whilst staring like a dumbarse at the CCTV footage trying to spot a ghost lol...


edit: This is the ghost vid that I find quite creepy
Mad

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Thu 25 Jan 2007, 09:24.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Anyone else see a hint of MadMan_CZ in this pic?

Quote from Bob Smith :

You're right, I never noticed it before - Madman also has giant green hands!

hmmmm....... :irked::arge:

Same as on the Momo Racing then..... hmmmm I can't really afford to get a G25 and a new desk I really don't understand why they removed the 3rd clamp, I do agree it was a bit dodgy and easy to break but it is just so useful and in my case.. vital!

Quote from tristancliffe :

Don't make the mistake I did of sawing it off

or you can always phone Bob and get him around to your house to break it off which is what he did to my momo wheel didn't you BOB!!!!

Than i had to get out the drill and search around the flat to find something suitable andmodify it slightly so that i could screw it back on as I need the underneath clamp because by desk is so thick i cannot use the 2 small clamps.....

I was checking out the G25 as I am thinking of investing some of my saved up cash and noticed that the third clamp was removed from the G25's design so it only uses the two small clamps. At present I don't think I could use my desk to clamp the G25 down, the two small clamps clamp to my desk only with 0.5cm at the tips(see pic) but tis the third clamp that actually holds my wheel in place.....unless they unscrew a lot further down so that i could actually get them under the table properly.

As you can see in the picture, i used a small wooden block with two screws on both sides to hold the third clamp in place, quite a poor fix but its holding rather nicely.

Can you shed some more info on the g25s clamping? (sorry to use you thread) hope you don't mind...

Mad

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

what a fool!

Heh my first ever computer was the zx spectrum. Though I was too little to remember exactly the first time i used one and the first game i loaded up.. Dynamite Dan is the only game along with Cyclone that really stick out as they were my favourites..

Dynamite Dan Picture 2196x1122 pixels (warning huge image)

I also remember this http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001845

mad

Quote from _rod_ :

I seen some stuff that i couldnt believe, but this, wins it all. That must be a set up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx9UxzM3RQk

Hmm that vid looks very real to me... the flip could have been caused by a bank or stone off the camera. Infact after the car flips, these is something laying next to the gate post which looks like a huge stone...

Quote from don :

lately there is somehow too many movies with "woman cant drive"
http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/07010902.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QGMUeKARpw

lol at the first one! Some people just can't reverse...cant believe she actually smacks the parked car 3 times? once ok, twice Z0MG, three times illepall and she drove of.

some people! how do they get thier license.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

I think it's because women multi task why they suck so much at driving, men are block headed, anything we do is simple, we want sex we say we want sex, we want food we say we want food, we hate a guy we club him round the head, simple, block headed thinking. Women want sex they act all weird, they want food they hint at it, they hate a women they just say to all their friends "we're not talking to that girl today". Complex, confusing, crap for driving thinking.

ROFL! hahaha! how so true!


Mad

Quote from andybarsblade :

ok ive got my album cover

(my brothers old band)

We're not in February yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from DeKo :

can take a while to get it up to scratch, but once you do it looks amazing

(these are not my screens, just copied them from RSC)

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow! Man that does look good. Yesterday I ramaged through my cds to see if by chance I didnt have GP4 and in the end I managed to find it. I also downloaded some of the mods but could you advise me which ones I need to get it looking that good?

i've been to www.gp4db.com to tge the 2006 beta mod but I dont think it comes with 05 tracks so that I still have the default tracks in game with default textures... just downloading the 05 trackpack though and the 05 season mod.

Mad

Quote from tristancliffe :

It's still being worked on. A number of people on this very forum have near daily contact with the developers.

No ETA (of course), but it's not dead yet. Just in an enforced coma.

I've given up hope that it would ever be released as I was looking forward to Racing Legends. I thought it was dead but now I see you say that its still going and it has filled me with excitement again and anticipation again. :hyper:

Yeah, album covers/band logos sound good.... +1 :up:

I'd for now be happy with just a nice metal twisting, scrapping, screeching, glass shattering, bits falling sound effect when crashing. Instead of that thud!

For now the damage model is fine

Mad

I remember when I had GP4 the replays were gorgeous to watch, it was the closest a game has ever come to simulating TV style coverage of a real F1 race. Wet weather was also stunning back when it was released, cant remember any game beating it to date, maybe gtr2 gets quite close.

It was only a shame that GP4 didnt support multiplayer over the net! its the only reason why i migrated to f1 99-02

mad

btw... if someone posted some stunning screenies it would help him

Quote from z3r0c00l :

Free trial... wooo....

*5 minutes later*

That wasn't worth the electrical energy required to light up the forcefeedback LED on my wheel.

I second that, its really poor, atleast GTR was fun and playable!

Hello fellow LXCCers

I wont be able to race tomorrow in the endurance race so if anyone could take my place that would be grand....

I race the LX6 for team BUM!

If you would like to race in my place then pm me, sorry for the short notice..

mad

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Fri 19 Jan 2007, 19:56.

Yeah its creepy, reminds me of the vid I have seen on the net of the ghost in the graveyard.. that was creepy too

Nice vid though, if only the beggining was tooooo loooooong

Quote from mr_x :

Turn down the graphics settings to medium at least. Reduce the resolution aswell. I had the same problem back in November when I got it and that fixed it.

I had the graphics on medium and ran it at 1024x768x32 resolution and without aa and af. I couldnt go any lower if I didnt want the game to look really crap. I did play the demo, that didnt work to well either but atleast graphics weren't screwed up. I did find it the same old crap as f1 99-02, GTR and GTR2 ohh and rTractor.... when the graphics work they look quite good but I will happily sacrafice and graphics and play LFS instead, atleast I know that will work on my computer 100% and it dont look too bad either

i dont know why i keep giving these so called sims a chance everytime one decides to show its face, they are always so crap, why oh why do i bother!

Mad

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Fri 19 Jan 2007, 18:44.

Well I have given Race a go but something weird is up with my computer when I try to play it.

With inside view I get no textures and all is very dark and grey, when driving around the track the road keeps disappearing, i get flashing fences in the road surface, all sorts of weird red patches form on the track in certain places. Grandstands keep flashing on and off and all sorts of other weird sh*t is happening.

On the car itself I get no tyre textures, instead the cars skin shows up on the wheels so they they spin you get all sorts of funky colours bluring. Cars breaklights appear white, opponents cars appear grey and flash on and off...

it just goes crazy illepall

I've no idea what could be causing this as all of my other games work without a problem. Yesterday i installed the latest Omega Radeon drivers.

any ideas? Has someone come across the same thing?

mad

Heh, just been browsing ebaumsworld and have come across another version of the first video posted but in this one they also show a quick glimpse of what happened to the fire truck , I know some one asked in this thread....

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/200 ... -crashes-in-portland.html

Here are more vids of people playing bumper cars on ice (quite old i know):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUpoTCSebfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... ;mode=related&search=

not sure how much ice could form in a tunnel though

Yeah, got it too.. Will give it a proper go (if it works) not that I expect anything special from an ISI based sim...

Will kill some hours though..

Mad

OMG.. how the hell do you people get your score so high. I reached level 39 and finished on 8900 points. illepall crazy

Jeez.. what was that one guy doing, he slams into a car then into a tree and then reverses into another bunch of cars. Its as if he had his foot down on the accelerator....

Last edited by Madman_CZ, Thu 18 Jan 2007, 10:02.

Big Brother is a rubbish form of entertainment. They find the strangest people in the country and stick them in a house for 3 months and watch how strange and bizzare they all are. One of the people that springs to mind is Jade, i mean rofl! how the hell did she manage to become a celebrity?

I just finished watching the news as there was a report that in the celebrity big brother that is currently running here people have been racist to a Bollywood actress.

How they can call any of those people in the house celebrities i dont know, only person that appears to have some class and intelligence and has talent is Shilpa Shetty. Rest are just failed celebrity wannabies....

Really though i couldnt give a toss about CBB or BB...

mad